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Definition: Soi-disant |
Soi-disantAdjective1. As claimed by and for yourself often without justification; "the self-styled `doctor' has no degree of any kind". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "soi-disant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Soi-disant (French). Self-styled, would-be. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Soi-disantSynonym: self-styled (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affirmation | Pronunciative, affirmative, soi-disant; positive; certain; express, explicit; (patent); absolute, emphatic, flat, broad, round, pointed, marked, distinct, decided, confident, trenchant, dogmatic, definitive, formal, solemn, categorical, peremptory; unretracted; predicable. |
Boasting | Boaster; braggart, braggadocio; Gascon, fanfaron, pretender, soi-disant; blower, bluffer, Foxy Quiller; blusterer; charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter; puppy; (fop). |
Adjective: boasting; Verb: magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant; vainglorious; (conceited); highfalutin, highfaluting; spread-eagle. | |
Deceiver | Imposter, pretender, soi-disant, humbug; adventurer; Cagliostro, Fernam Mendez Pinto; ass in lion's skin; (bungler); actor; (stage player). |
Misnomer | Adjective: misnamed; Verb: pseudonymous; soi-disant; self called, self styled, self christened; so-called. |
Untruth | Adjective: untrue, false, phony, trumped up; void of foundation, without-foundation; fictive, far from the truth, false as dicer's oaths; unfounded, ben trovato, invented, fabulous, fabricated, forged; fictitious, factitious, supposititious, surreptitious; elusory, illusory; ironical; soi-disant; (misnamed). |
Vanity | Self-satisfied, self-confident, self-sufficient, self-flattering, self-admiring, self-applauding, self-glorious, self-opinionated; entente; (wrongheaded); wise in one's own conceit, pragmatical, overwise, pretentious, priggish; egotistic, egotistical; soi-disant; (boastful); arrogant. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Soi-disant |
| Non-English Usage: "Soi-disant" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (allied, pretended, seeming, self-styled, so called, supposed, supposedly, would be). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Soi-disant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Soi-disant" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "soi-disant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | sogenannt (so called), angeblich (alleged, allegedly, ostensible, ostensibly, pretended, professed, professedly, reputed, so called, supposedly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oi-disantsay sözde (alleged, allegedly, as if, as though, nominal, nominally, of a sort, of sorts, ostensible, professed, professedly, quasi, quasi-, reputed, self-styled, so called, supposed, would be). (various references) tá»± xÆ°ng (self-styled), tá»± nháºn, tá»± gá»i là ; gá»i là . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-i-n-o-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: distains. | |
-2 letters: distain, isatins. | |
-3 letters: adonis, danios, idiots, insist, iodins, isatin, odists, sadist, saints, santos, satins, stains, stands, tsadis. | |
-4 letters: adios, adits, antis, danio, datos, dints, ditas, doats, doits, donas, idiot, intis, iodin, iotas, nitid, oasis, oasts, odist, oidia, ossia, ostia, sadis, saids, sains, saint, sands, santo, sasin, satin, satis, snits, snots, sodas, staid. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-i-n-o-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: diagnostics, disappoints, dissipation, distrainors. | |
+3 letters: adoptianisms, adoptionisms, adoptionists, cuspidations, desiccations, designations, destinations, dilatoriness, dislocations, dispensation, disputations, disrelations, disseminator, dissertation, dissipations, dissociating, dissociation, distractions, mandolinists, subauditions, syndications, unfastidious. | |
+4 letters: accordionists, antispasmodic, custodianship, desalinations, desiderations, despoliations, deviationisms, deviationists, disaffections, disclamations, disinflations, disorientates, dispassionate, dispensations, dispositional, dissemination, disseminators, dissertations, dissimilation, dissimulation, dissociations, distillations, educationists, grandiosities, idiomaticness, isoantibodies, miseducations, mountainsides, palindromists, postdiluvians, radiationless, stridulations, subsidization, traditionless, undissociated, vasodilations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 69 2D 64 69 73 61 6E 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01101001 00101101 01100100 01101001 01110011 01100001 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o i - d i s a n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0069 002D 0064 0069 0073 0061 006E 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53817515707585678086 |
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